Example sentences of "[verb] was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I see that the method used was to divert large amounts of money into a fund under the name of another firm , a non-existent firm I imagine . ’ |
| 2 | The ban aimed at eliminating the ivory market , which many conservationists believed was fuelling widespread poaching which reduced Africa 's elephant population from an estimated 1.2 million to 609,000 in the last decade . |
| 3 | And he drew it out actually , remember he 's only six , seven years old and what he 'd done was to put this spring loaded hanger into the back of the tube and he 'd made a kind of trigger with a little , little plastic peg , and he said here 's your gun ! |
| 4 | The only job I 've ever done was selling trendy clothes so I 've got wardrobes full of them . |
| 5 | The antibiotics were being injected into the brain at doses sufficient to block all protein synthesis for several hours , and yet it appeared that no other aspect of the animal 's behaviour was affected — not its capacity to perform already learned tasks , to see and respond to the world around or to act otherwise ‘ normally ’ ; the only thing it seemingly could n't do was to memorize new tasks . |
| 6 | What they could n't do was perform meaningless calculations and relate them to situations which were equally meaningless to them . |
| 7 | What it would n't do was ensure good pictures , and Herbert Wilcox saw at once that such legislation would create an ‘ awkward squad ’ of British films which would immediately become the laughing stock of the world . ’ |
| 8 | All that the King could do was to provide some sort of legal foundation of government for Englishmen going to unsettled and thinly populated areas , which he did by linking the legitimacy of their governments to the legitimacy of his government . |
| 9 | Marsh argued that the only way in which an objective judgement could be made was to compare actual fees charged with those predicted by an ex-ante model . |
| 10 | The ‘ restructuring school ’ argued that it was not possible to provide an explanation in terms of location factors alone ; what was needed was to set these factors within the wider context of the restructuring of industry ( Massey , 1979 ; Sayer , 1982 ) . |
| 11 | To hurry was to dispel any feeling of luxury . |
| 12 | UK Environment Minister David Trippier , speaking to UNEP 's governing council in Nairobi , criticized other European countries for failing to provide adequate support , which he claimed was jeopardizing key UNEP work on global warming and the ozone layer . |
| 13 | One of the things we had been told was to carry any valuables we had around with us so that they could n't go astray . |
| 14 | The closest he came to exercise was to open one eye every so often , if someone entered the room , or to open both eyes , smile , and wag his tail as he 'd done on one occasion when confronted by a housebreaker ! |
| 15 | All the Tories needed to win was to play those interviews back as party political broadcasts . |
| 16 | I thought this must be the end for all three of us but in fact all the policeman wanted to do was to stop any traffic going on to the Via Emilia as a big convoy was on its way south towards Parma . |
| 17 | Poise was going to be the order of the day — poise and sophistication ; she had taken great care to look the part , now all she had to do was feel that way too . |
| 18 | In our own ignorance all we thought we had to do was to educate these people so ERA also established a ‘ health task force ’ . |
| 19 | And to solve Dr Tariq 's problems all he had to do was to find two traitors . |
| 20 | What the NIRC was required to do was to make binding decisions , and to see that they were enforced , in the context of dispute between trade unions , individual workmen , employers , and employers ' federations . |
| 21 | On top was the Queen with Princess Anne in a pushchair and Paul McCartney as Dad , and here was one I had near the beginning about being in a space-ship — Brian and me were weightless and floating around , and what we had to do was to get some stability by getting hold of this firework , a sort of Catherine wheel that was going round and round and showering sparks in our faces , so we closed our eyes and a fire-fanged beast roared flames at us and burned a hole in the space-ship and I fell , still with my eyes tight shut , out into the bottomless black void . |
| 22 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |
| 23 | And one of the things we set out to do was to bring some stability to the industry because everyone was trying to carve prices up . |
| 24 | The first thing she would have to do was to raise some capital so that she could rescue something from the dregs of her father 's business . |
| 25 | Someone who 's had the courage who knowing that what they were saying was upsetting powerful people , still taking that risk and saying what they felt to be true and just ? |
| 26 | The obvious course for policy to pursue was to abolish these manyattas , unleashing in the process the latent energy of the moran for constructive purposes . |
| 27 | The method of fishing employed was to secure one end of the dragnet on the shore and the other on the boat . |
| 28 | He braked but could not avoid the pedestrian whom he thought was wearing dark clothing . |
| 29 | Tack was left some money in his mother 's will and decided that he should give up his job and go in to business for himself . |
| 30 | Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) : ‘ We 're not Art specialists … we need to have an explanation of Art staff expectations in terms of the nature of the tasks set and the quality of the final output … the class I saw was practising observational skills for homework … limited to the use of pencil . ’ |